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2025–2026 United States redistricting The South Carolina Senate rejects a redistricting effort to change the congressional districts in the U.S.
Confirmed
South Carolina lawmakers dealt President Trump's national redistricting effort a blow Tuesday when the state Senate voted against redistricting there after three weeks of rushed hearings and long debate. South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who fielded several calls from Trump, was one of those Republicans opposing the redistricting.
He said that unlike other southern states that rushed to redistrict, South Carolina's districts did not fall under a recent Supreme Court ruling weakening voting rights for minorities. Republican officials in Alabama, which had previously postponed scheduled primary elections for four congressional seats to draw up new maps, have said that they will appeal Tuesday’s decision to the US Supreme Court.
A three-judge federal panel blocked Republicans in Alabama from moving forward with a new map that would eliminate one of the state’s two districts with major Black populations. Also on Tuesday, a federal court temporarily blocked the redistricting plan Alabama lawmakers had approved to flip a Democratic-held seat there.
Some analysts have said that such efforts by both parties risk diminishing the integrity of the elections, but Democrats have framed their efforts as a necessary counterweight to the push from Republicans. "I am embarrassed that so many people in our legislature will allow strangers in Washington to tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it," Clyburn said.
Republican state Sen. Richard Cash echoed that concern from the floor Tuesday and said time had run out. "Voting has begun, it is time to conclude the matter," Cash said.
What's confirmed
- South Carolina lawmakers dealt President Trump's national redistricting effort a blow Tuesday when the state Senate voted against redistricting there after three weeks of rushed hearings and long debate.
- He said that unlike other southern states that rushed to redistrict, South Carolina's districts did not fall under a recent Supreme Court ruling weakening voting rights for minorities.
- A three-judge federal panel blocked Republicans in Alabama from moving forward with a new map that would eliminate one of the state’s two districts with major Black populations.
- Some analysts have said that such efforts by both parties risk diminishing the integrity of the elections, but Democrats have framed their efforts as a necessary counterweight to the push from Republicans.
What's still developing
- A three-judge federal panel blocked Republicans in Alabama from moving forward with a new map that would eliminate one of the state’s two districts with major Black populations.
- Republican officials in Alabama, which had previously postponed scheduled primary elections for four congressional seats to draw up new maps, have said that they will appeal Tuesday’s decision to the US Supreme Court.
- Some analysts have said that such efforts by both parties risk diminishing the integrity of the elections, but Democrats have framed their efforts as a necessary counterweight to the push from Republicans.
- South Carolina lawmakers dealt President Trump's national redistricting effort a blow Tuesday when the state Senate voted against redistricting there after three weeks of rushed hearings and long debate.
- Republican state Sen. Richard Cash echoed that concern from the floor Tuesday and said time had run out.
- "Voting has begun, it is time to conclude the matter," Cash said.
- "I am embarrassed that so many people in our legislature will allow strangers in Washington to tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it," Clyburn said.
- South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who fielded several calls from Trump, was one of those Republicans opposing the redistricting.